Crowdsourcing an emotional wardrobe
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Hughes, L.
Atkinson, Doug
Berthouze, N.
Baurley, S.
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2012Type
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Hughes, L. and Atkinson, D. and Berthouze, N. and Baurley, S. 2012. Crowdsourcing an emotional wardrobe, in Proceedings of the Human Factors in 30th Computing Systems Conference, May 5-10 2012, pp. 231-240. Austin, Texas: ACM.
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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
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30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
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School of Information Systems
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Selecting clothing online requires decision-making about sensorial experiences, but online environments provide only limited sensorial information. Inferences are therefore made on the basis of product pictures and their textual description. This is often unreliable as it is either based on the designer's understanding of the product or deprived of perceptual content due to the difficulty of expressing such experiences. Using a purpose built website that combines and cross references multi-modal descriptive media, this study aims at investigating the possibility of using crowdsourcing mechanisms and multi-modal language to engage consumers in providing enriched descriptions of their tactile experiences of garments.